Definition of random
- n. - Force; violence.
- n. - A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of
direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the
phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at
hazard.
- n. - Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the
random of a rifle ball.
- n. - The direction of a rake-vein.
- a. - Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or
without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous
calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.